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Matthew wrote and illustrated a geeky kids' book called Charlie Weatherburn and the Flying Machine. In this talk he challenges the notion that "perfect is the enemy of done" and suggests that, particularly in personal projects, the pursuit of perfection is a noble and worthy cause.

Jarod's the guy that created that beached whale and its feathered friend with the Kiwi accents. His viral video, Beached Az, kick-started his career by creating quite the splash on YouTube - in fact, more people have watched it than the entire population of New Zealand!

Jane is a Senior Product Manager at Cochlear – the leader in advanced hearing loss solutions. She discusses how the technology and software she works with is literally changing the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids around the world.

The Microsoft Kinect holds the Guiness World Record as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever, selling 8 million units in the first 2 months. With the recent release of the official SDK, you are the controller, with the ability to change the face of future applications. Learn how to take...

Beautiful designs and architectures are all good and well, but is application architecture enough? To what degree are modern solutions architected around end user adoption or for operational excellence with great embedded telemetry? What are the characteristics of great architecture and the behaviors...

Scope creeping? Vision dissipating? Stakeholders disengaging? Team splintering? Specification ballooning? User experience rehashing? Application prototyping can help with these ailments and more by creating a common vision for team members, stakeholders and customers. Prototypes can be high fidelity...

So you've invested heavily in SCCM 2007 and it's working just the way you like. Will you have to undo everything to move to SCCM 2012? What about all that precious data, client history and inventory? Fear not - SCCM 2012 has a fully-supported migration path, so come along and find out just how powerful...

Traditional BI setups can require specialist skills to develop dashboards. Furthermore there are many tools in the Microsoft stack which can all be used to create dashboards – SharePoint PerformancePoint Services, SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint Excel Services. This session focuses on Excel Services...

We’ve all heard HTML 5 is just around the corner but what can you use now? What’s likely to be useful? And when is it actually coming out? We probably won’t be able to answer the last question, however we will give the other two a good go! Come to this session to learn more about the new features in...

This presentation will showcase the magic of asynchronous programming in C# 5. We'll start with the basics: exactly what asynchronous programming is, how it differs from multithreading, and why it's become so important in today's cloud-connected world. We'll then set up scenarios to demonstrate the headache...

This session will cover .NET parallel programming in the present and future. Starting with a recap of the parallel programming libraries in Framework 4.0, we'll highlight the most effective patterns for levering today's multicore processors - along with some cool tricks and tips. Then we'll take a preview...

SCOM 2012 provides a significant number of new features over its predecessor SCOM 2007 R2. This session will introduce you to these new features including the new SCOM topology which includes the removal of the single RMS, the extension of monitoring support to now include rich monitoring of network...

User Device Affinity (UDA) in SCCM 2012 treats users as first-class citizens within the SCCM environment, and gives administrators new and innovative abilities to target users, devices and groups and deploy applications on an as-needs basis, intelligently enabling and supporting business workflows. Come...